Finance for Impact

0.5-1.5 credits · Graduate

Explores how the world of finance is changing to meet global challenges and provides approaches to analyzing financial decisions. Topics include discounted cash flow techniques, valuation of financial assets, financial statement analysis, capital budgeting decisions, risk and return tradeoffs, diversification and portfolio theory, capital market efficiency and the cost of capital to the firm. Explores ethical issues related to financial decision making and issues related to sustainability in project valuation and portfolio investments.